Potato-slicer.



' J. J. LANGAS.

POTATO SLIGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 18, 1907.

Patented Mar. 30, 1909.

. larly to slicing .citizen of the United States,

JOSEPH -J. LANGAS, OF ASHLAND, WISCONSIN.

POTATO-SLICER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 30, 1909.

Application flled May 18, 1907. Serial No. 374,854.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it, known that I, JosEPH J. LANGAS, a residing at Ashland, in the county of Ashland, State of isconsimhave invented certain new and useful In) n'ovements in Potato-Slicers; and I do here y declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to implements for slicing and paring vegetables, more particupotatoes and similar articles but which is also adapted for slicing and paring fruits of different kinds, and has for one ofits objects to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efiiciency and reduce the expense of manufacture of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to produce a device of this character formed from p a single sheet of metal having integral clips at the ends adapted to bear over a knife blade near the ends and forming a guard to the cutting edge of the blade and a guide to the material being acted upon.

WVith these and other. objects in View the invention consists in a plate of sheet metal having transversely extended ends, the body of the plate adapted to be bent laterally and v the transverse ends'bent for a portion of their length upon themselves to form blade engaging clips which hold the body of the plate at the. required distance from the cutting edge of the blade to enable it to be employed as a slicing implement,' and to produce slices of uniform thicknesses.

The invention further consists in certain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and described and then specifically ings'illustrating the pointed out inthe claims, and in the drawpreferred embodiment the 1nvent1on, F igure 1 1s a side VIEW. of

the im rovement applied. Fig. 2 is a plan view 0 the same. Fig. 3 is an end view enlarged lookin toward the handle. Fig. 4- is a section on t. e line-4-4 of Fig. I looking toward the handle.

The improved device comprises an attach-' ment for paring knives formed from a single sheet of metal, preferably steel, and comprising a body portion 1 and transverse end portions 3-3, the end portions extending transversely of the body portion and longer at one side than the other, the shorter sides 22 bearing flatly against one face of the blade A and with the longer portion bent upon itself at 3 and each longer portion formed with a corrugation 5 next to the bend 8 and with the longer portion curving from the blade so that the resilience of the metal causes the corrugations 5 to bear with greater force against the blade and thus hold it in position. The terminals of the longer ends of the transverse portions approach the blade at its rear edge, and thus guard the same and preventlateral displacement.

The body portion 1 of the blade s bent outwardly as shown at 4-4 or away from the flat portions 6, and is thus spaced from the blade of the knife, this spaced portion representing the thickness of the slices of the vegetables which are to be out. By tlns simple means relativel broad paring surfaces are produced whlch engage the blade near its ends from opposite sides, and thus effectually prevent any looseness or displacement of the blade while in actlon, and materially increases the grip between the blade and the attachment. By increaslng or decreasing the offset of the body 1 so as to increase or decrease the distance between the body and the blade the thickness of the slices may be correspondingly increased or decreased.

- The attachment being formed from a sugle piece of sheet metal can be stamped at small expense from strips of metal, and cheaply bent by machinery lnto the required shape earing projections at the ends of unequal len'gth, parallel to andspaced from the cutting edge the longer projections bent upon themselves 1 of the blade; 0 and curved at the bends and with corruga-- In testimony whereof, I aflix my sigma tions adjacent to the bends and curving outture, in presence of two witnesses.

wardly adjacent to the corrugations where- JOSEPH J. LANGAS.

by clips are formed to bear upon opposite Wit v sides of a knife blade at spaced intervals E. 'M. GEORGE,

with the body portion of the plate extending x J OHN: E. YOUNG. 

